Listen "Jan 29, 2011"
Episode Synopsis
Spectacular political developments across the Arab world as viewed from the Corniche in Beirut by Kevin Connolly; Quentin Somerville in Kabul views shocking evidence of what the Taleban call justice; Madeleine Morris is in the Indian state of Andrha Pradesh finding out why microcredit, once hailed as the answer to world poverty, has been getting a bad name; James Coomarasamy explores a town in Belarus where the spirit of Lenin still marches on and David Goldblatt is in Dakar getting a crash course in how to get streetwise in Senegal.
And a correspondent goes in the footsteps of a master as he learns how to survive on the streets of Dakar....
And a correspondent goes in the footsteps of a master as he learns how to survive on the streets of Dakar....
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